Q:

Make a box-and-whisker plot for the data. what is the median value? 56 32 48 52 51 53 48 38 35 42 40 46 54 50

Accepted Solution

A:
32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 46, 48, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56

The median value is 48.

To find the median you put all the numbers in order. If there is an odd number of numbers it is the center number. If there are an even amount of numbers it is the mean I’d the two central numbers. In this case the two central numbers were the same. So the median is 48.